Abstract
Unsustainable developments will continue to be a significant challenge from the global to local level. The United Nations Transformation Agenda 2030 reflects the breadth and depth of the task and serves as a central reference point. The participation and collaboration of state and non-state actors are considered necessary to make progress in this context. However, politics and policy-making play a central role for guiding and shaping sustainable development. In order to secure societal acceptance for the targeted sustainability transformation, this article claims that policy-making for sustainable development should aim to bring about well-being-oriented transformations. In this regard, besides cognitive insight into the need for change, the multisensory dimensions of human existence in general as well as in everyday social practices in particular should be taken into account more systematically. It is argued that the presented approach of artful scientific policy advice may enable sensory-informed and creative policy-making by providing aesthetic expertise.
Highlights
Over the past fifty years, the international scientific community of interdisciplinary environmental sciences and—at a later date—sustainability sciences has generated an impressive body of knowledge providing convincing evidence of critical unsustainable developments [1]
Key elements of varying conceptual and methodological scientific approaches, such as transition management [8], reflexive governance for sustainable development [9], great transformation [10], and transformative transdisciplinary sustainability science [11], all have in common the logic of a deliberative multistakeholder, integrated, and solutionoriented approach, and they are recognized in the UN agenda 2030
This article highlights a less focused aspect: Based on the premise that politics and policymaking are of particular importance for guiding and shaping sustainable development [4], there is a need for sustainability policies and governance to pay particular attention to well-being-oriented transformations in order to foster social acceptance [12]
Summary
Over the past fifty years, the international scientific community of interdisciplinary environmental sciences and—at a later date—sustainability sciences has generated an impressive body of knowledge providing convincing evidence of critical unsustainable developments [1]. Key elements of varying conceptual and methodological scientific approaches, such as transition management [8], reflexive governance for sustainable development [9], great transformation [10], and transformative transdisciplinary sustainability science [11], all have in common the logic of a deliberative multistakeholder, integrated, and solutionoriented approach, and they are recognized in the UN agenda 2030 Within this context, this article highlights a less focused aspect: Based on the premise that politics and policymaking are of particular importance for guiding and shaping sustainable development [4], there is a need for sustainability policies and governance to pay particular attention to well-being-oriented transformations in order to foster social acceptance [12]. The approach of artful scientific policy advice is introduced, and it is argued that aesthetic expertise can be generated, which may strengthen sensory-informed policy-making
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